Ealing Branch Programme
Ealing Branch Programme 2024-25
Meetings are usually held on the second Tuesday of each month at Ealing Green Church, W5 5QT, at 7.30pm, with the exception of the November meeting which takes place at Twyford School at 6.30 pm. Talks are live events but with the speaker’s permission we aim to make a recording available afterwards to those registering on Eventbrite (the booking link will be available one month in advance of each talk and listed on our website: www.ealinghistory.org.uk)
Branch members (£15 annual fee) and visitors (£5 per talk) students free.
Secretary: Dr Philip Woods. Tel 0208 579 2174. Email philipgwoods@outlook.com
For fuller and up-to-date details: www.ealinghistory.org.uk
2024
Tuesday 10 September
The Memory of the Crusades in western Europe and the Near East from the C18th to the present day.
Professor Jonathan Phillips, Royal Holloway, University of London
Tuesday 8 October
Capitalism and Slavery. Where are we now?
Emerita Professor Catherine Hall, Department of History, University College London, Chair of the Centre for the study of the Legacies of British Slavery.
Tuesday 12 November
Violence and peaceful persuasion in Lenin’s approach to the Russian Revolution 1917-24 Speaking to the sixth form evening at Twyford CoE High school, W3 9PP, 6.30pm. All welcome.
Emeritus Professor Chris Read, Warwick University
Tuesday 10 December
AGM & Christmas Social
2025
Tuesday 14 January
Issues in Writing Modern Political Biographies
Dr Andrew Lownie, Senior Research Fellow in Modern British History at the University of Buckingham.
Tuesday 11 February
Widows of the Ice: The Women that Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Left Behind
Anne Fletcher, author
Tuesday 11 March
The Debatable Resilience of Nehru’s Liberal Democracy in India
Emeritus Professor James Manor, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London
Tuesday 8 April
Off the beaten track: researching and writing social histories of the Third Reich
Julia Boyd, author
Tuesday 13 May
What can you learn from a cookbook (other than how to cook)?
Professor Rebecca Earle, University of Warwick
Tuesday 10 June
Maimed Soldiers, War Widows and the Human Cost of the English Civil Wars: stories from the Civil War Petitions project
Dr Ismini Pells, Oxford department for Continuing Education